Our laptops aren’t connecting to the internet. The Apple TV won’t stream anything but Netflix. Nothing else is working properly... but we watched an entire movie on Netflix without a hiccup...

How does that happen? It’s creeping me out!

Could it be locally cached. Does not netflix offer some firm of offline access?

How is this for creepy. My daughter's Lenovo laptop would receive 500-level errors from various web sites (of course #1 priority was fixing Roblox), which on my laptop, wife's laptop, son's laptop, tablets, etc, all work fine. TL;DR of the many things I tried (updated drivers, flushing the DNS, clearing the cache, etc etc) that didn't work, I found the BIOS needed an update. Updated the BIOS, tada, no more errors. Had to endure multitudes of "Why didn't you do this earlier?!" and no matter of explaining that those types of errors are from THEIR SERVER! I can only assume her laptop was malforming some IP datapacket causing their server to throw errors.

Microwave interference and a fucky DHCP cache.

Check for packet loss, netflix might be buffering (better)

@Voxera well, in this case / we hadn’t watched the movie before, so I wouldn’t think so...

@sheriffderek interesting :)

I do know netflix are using locally placed cache servers at some isp’s, maybe that be the reason?

@jkommeren What is a good inroad to learn about that stuff? I'm a web developer - but I'm always trying to learn more about the underlying stuff.